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...narrative that barrels through history and the reality of Cal’s reflective intransigence. The novel’s historical reflections are interspersed with fragments of Cal’s search for emotional connection, and his flight from that connection into anonymity and loneliness. These passages manifest Cal as the tragic center of the novel. “If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn’t feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I’m comfortable with. Just...
Moreover, the genocide in which we presume Austerlitz’s mother was murdered (this is never stated explicitly) is manifest in the fragments of evidence that Austerlitz finds in archives and books, and in the unattributed photographs that punctuate the pages of the novel. This is clearest towards the book’s end, in an extended description of a film made by the Nazis on the occasion of the Red Cross’s inspection of Theresienstadt in 1944, mendaciously depicting the prisoners of the camp enjoying life in what resembles a holiday resort. Austerlitz slows the film...
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy and director of health policy research at the Kennedy School, said that Blendon’s results were manifest in American politics, adding that it is “absolutely true” that public opinion regarding current health reform is based more on how it affects each person individually than impact on the nation. Chandra added that what the American public wants for themselves is often in the long run good for the United States...
From here, Von Trier fashions a conceit from the juxtaposition of modern psychotherapy and bald psychoanalytic symbols. The couple’s respective reactions to grief—Dafoe’s intellectual distance manifest in his treatment of Gainsbourg, whose psychic pain becomes physical—exaggerate at a rate that reaches the suspenseful around the second act, and plows right through to the comically ridiculous by the third. Gainsbourg’s agonizing depression, it seems, is demonic rather than psychological—the wolf whose psychiatric sheep’s clothing leads Dafoe’s analyst...
...music to death,” he says. “It was less about the quality of the sound than about the colors we created.”The audience’s thrill—evoked by the musical world the ensemble showed them—was manifest; they were on their feet and cheering three movements before the conclusion of the final piece. To perform such energetic non-Western music amongst the pews and crosses of Memorial Church seemed a fitting emblem of the Silk Road Project’s quest for genuine multiculturalism...